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50 YEAR OLD ARTICLE DOCUMENTS ISG EXPANSION
The new corona virus hasn't brought joy to anyone in the world, but the slow downs it has generated gave former ISG President Jim Jones an opportunity to do some tidying up in his office. One of the gems Coach Jones found was an article from 1969 detailing ISG founder Bill Arce's first trip to the Czech Republic. Arce had already been traveling yearly to the Netherlands helping them develop baseball there when a member of the Czech Baseball Union contacted him and asked him to pay a visit. After some trepidation, Arce decided to make the trip and the rest, as they say, is history.
Jones, who has previously coached at Stanford, St. Mary's and the University of Wyoming, recalls being sent by Arce to Prague in 1990 in the first decade of ISG Baseball's existence. "I was truly a "Babe in the Woods" when I got off that plane in Prague," he said, "It was a start to a great travel adventure through the international baseball world."
Jones went on to add, "This article is just a reminder of the important work Bill did...in international baseball. He traveled under much more difficult conditions that we face today. Bill opened exciting opportunities for so many baseball coaches."
We at ISG Baseball hope that this pandemic will be short-lived and baseball can continue developing around the world with our help!
The entire article is pasted below from the Newark Star Ledger newspaper.
Jones, who has previously coached at Stanford, St. Mary's and the University of Wyoming, recalls being sent by Arce to Prague in 1990 in the first decade of ISG Baseball's existence. "I was truly a "Babe in the Woods" when I got off that plane in Prague," he said, "It was a start to a great travel adventure through the international baseball world."
Jones went on to add, "This article is just a reminder of the important work Bill did...in international baseball. He traveled under much more difficult conditions that we face today. Bill opened exciting opportunities for so many baseball coaches."
We at ISG Baseball hope that this pandemic will be short-lived and baseball can continue developing around the world with our help!
The entire article is pasted below from the Newark Star Ledger newspaper.
A Sample Script for Positive ELM Coaching
(This article appeared on the Positive Coaching Alliance website and its philosophy is shared by the ISG Baseball Board of Directors whose members heartily endorse joining that great organization!)
This is a script that coaches can draw from in order to share the concept of ELM with players. With just a few adjustments based on which sport you coach and your players’ ages, you can deliver the core message in your own voice.
There are two kinds of winners in sports. One kind is the team that has scored the most at the end of a game. This is the Scoreboard winner. We want to be a Scoreboard winner and the other kind, a Mastery winner. A Mastery winner gives consistently great effort, continually learns, and bounces back from mistakes.
We can be this more-important kind of winner no matter what the scoreboard says. The more we work at being Mastery winners, the more likely we are to be Scoreboard winners. And the more we work at being Mastery winners, the more likely we are to be winners in life!
To help remember the important parts of mastery, we use the ELM Tree of Mastery. In ELM, the E is for Effort, the L is for Learning and the M is for Mistakes are OK. Let’s go over some details of what I mean.
So, remember, as long as you give your best Effort, Learn and are not afraid of Mistakes, you are climbing the ELM Tree of Mastery, and you’ll be a winner in sports and in life.
This is a script that coaches can draw from in order to share the concept of ELM with players. With just a few adjustments based on which sport you coach and your players’ ages, you can deliver the core message in your own voice.
There are two kinds of winners in sports. One kind is the team that has scored the most at the end of a game. This is the Scoreboard winner. We want to be a Scoreboard winner and the other kind, a Mastery winner. A Mastery winner gives consistently great effort, continually learns, and bounces back from mistakes.
We can be this more-important kind of winner no matter what the scoreboard says. The more we work at being Mastery winners, the more likely we are to be Scoreboard winners. And the more we work at being Mastery winners, the more likely we are to be winners in life!
To help remember the important parts of mastery, we use the ELM Tree of Mastery. In ELM, the E is for Effort, the L is for Learning and the M is for Mistakes are OK. Let’s go over some details of what I mean.
- E is for Effort. We’ll give our best effort in every practice and game. It’s more important to me that we try our hardest than if we win. If we win without giving it our best effort, that win doesn’t mean much. But if we play a strong team and try our hardest and lose, I’ll still be proud of our team.
- L is for Learning. Let’s continue learning and improving every time we come out here. If we continue to learn, we will get better. Getting better than we are now is more important than whether or not we are better than some other team. We can also think of this as competing with ourselves; if we get better than we used to be, then we are winning that competition.
- M is for Mistakes. Nobody likes to make mistakes, but mistakes are part of learning. You can’t learn without making mistakes, because to learn you have to try things that are new and challenging, so of course you are going to make mistakes.
So, remember, as long as you give your best Effort, Learn and are not afraid of Mistakes, you are climbing the ELM Tree of Mastery, and you’ll be a winner in sports and in life.
Baseball Canada's Vision for Long Term Athletic Development Shared in Coaching Tips Section
Baseball Canada is miles ahead of the curve when it comes to developing athletes for life-long success. Thanks to our friend Andre Lachance, they have allowed us to share the scope of that vision with you. Check out our coaching tips section for a graphic illustration of their LTAD plans.
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